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from:15/09/1940 till:17/09/1940 text:[[Tripartite Pact|1]]
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from:22/11/1943 till:25/11/1943
from:26/11/1943 till:01/12/1943 text:9
from:01/07/1944 till:22/07/1944 text:[[Bretton Woods Conference|10]]
from:04/02/1945 till:11/02/1945 text:[[Yalta Conference|11]]
from:25/04/1945 till:26/06/1945 text:[[United Nations|12]]
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at:06/08/1945 $right text:[[Hiroshima]] 6/8~[[Nagasaki, Nagasaki|Nagasaki]] 9/8~Japan surrenders 2/9
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bar:Gilberts at:09/12/1941 $leftPH text:9/12 Makin [[Tarawa]]
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bar:Thailand at:08/12/1941 $leftPH text:8-14/12 [[Thailand]] allies with Japan
bar:Thailand at:15/07/1944 $leftneg1 text:./7 Pro Japanese govt. ousted
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bar:Burma at:20/05/1942 $leftneg1 text:20/5
bar:Burma at:13/02/1943 $leftneg1 text:13/2-29/4 [[Chindits]]
bar:Burma at:15/02/1944 $leftneg1 text:5/2 Chindits
bar:Burma at:15/02/1944 $leftneg1 text:5/2 Chindits
bar:Philippines at:10/12/1941 $leftPH text:10/12
bar:Philippines at:10/05/1942 $leftneg1 text:10/5
bar:Philippines at:15/12/1944 $leftneg1 text:15/12 (9/1 [[Luzon]])
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bar:Midway at:04/06/1942 $leftneg1 text:"4-7/6 [[Battle of Midway]]" mark:(line,white)
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bar:US at:25/09/1940 $leftneg1 text:"25/9 [[Ultra]]" mark:(line,white)
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text:[[World War II]] - Pacific Theatre
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text:Preliminary events
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text:^1933^ 27/3^Japan leaves [[League of Nations]]
text:^1940^ 25/9^project [[Ultra]] - Japanese code cracked
text:^ ^ 27/7^Japan claims [[Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere|Greater East Asia]]
text:^ ^ ^ ^[[Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere|Co-Prosperity Sphere]]
text:^ ^ 27/9^Japan signs [[Tripartite Pact]] with Germ./Italy
text:^1941^ 26/7^US freezes Jap. assets, oil/steel [[embargo]]
text:^ ^30/11^Japan makes final decision to attack US
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text:Sea Battles
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text:^ 1^1942^7/12^Japanese attack [[Pearl Harbour]]
text:^ 2^^10/12^Japanese [[aircraft carrier|carrier aircraft]] sink
text:^ ^^^Prince of Wales and Repulse (Br.)
text:^ 3^^19/2^Battle of Lumbok Str
text:^ 4^^25/2^[[Battle of the Java Sea]]
text:^ 5^^1/3^Battle of Sunda Str
text:^ 6^^7-8/5^[[Battle of the Coral Sea]]
text:^ 7^^4-7/6^[[Battle of Midway]]
text:^ 8^^9/8^[[Battle of Savo Island]]
text:^ 9^^24-25/8^[[Battle of the Eastern Solomons]]
text:^10^^26/10^[[Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands]]
text:^11^1943 ^3-5/3^Battle of Bismarck Sea
text:^12^1944 ^ 19-20/6^[[Battle of the Philippine Sea]]
text:^13^^23-27/10^[[Battle of Leyte Gulf]]
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text:Conferences
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text:^ 1^ 1940^ 27/9^[[Berlin]] Ger,It,Jap Tripartite Pact
text:^ 2^ 1941^ 9-12/8^N-Atlantic VS,GB [[Atlantic Charter]]
text:^ 3^ 1941^ 29/9-1/10^[[Moscow]] US,GB,SU more aid to SU
text:^ 4^41/42^22/12-14/1^[[Washington]] US,GB 'Europe first' + [[United Nations|UN]] draft
text:^ 5^ 1943^ 14-24/1^[[Casablanca Conference|Casablanca]] US,GB
text:^ 6^ ^ 17-24/8^[[Quebec]]
text:^ 7^ ^18/10-1/11^Moscow US,GB,SU
text:^ 8^ ^ 22-25/11^[[Cairo]] US,GB,China
text:^ 9^ ^26/11-1/12^[[Tehran]] US,GB,SU
text:^10^ 1944^ 1-22/7^[[Bretton Woods Conference|Bretton Woods]] 44 nations est. [[IMF]] + [[World Bank]]
text:^11^ 1945^ 4-11/2^[[Yalta Conference|Yalta]] US,GB,SU
text:^12^ ^ 25/4-26/6^[[San Francisco]] 46 nations UN Charter
text:^13^ ^ 17/7-2/8^[[Potsdam Conference|Potsdam]] US,GB,SU
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text:Date format dd/mm
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text:"Author [http://eza.gemm.nl|Erik Zachte]" # link:http://eza.gemm.nl
text:Version 2.0 - April 6 2004
text:"Plot generated with [http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm|EasyTimeline]"
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